The Dream Factory

The Dream Factory by Catherine Blackfeather can be read as a simple fairy tale (though there are no fairies in it) or it can be read as an allegory of the journey of the soul. A small boy is imprisoned while his ability to dream is being stripped from him. Escape is possible but does he find freedom or simply another prison? When we are lost in the dark, sometimes the only way-markers we have to guide us to the light are the stories that come from myths and dreams.